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1969 Reprint of this 1947 classic murder mystery. — In the history of Hope House, a home for working girls, nothing untoward had every happened. The ladies of the home were very proper ladies, indeed. Then Ruth Miller moved in, and a very few hours later was found limp, broken, and very dead in the courtyard. "Fell or jumped," was the comforta... more »ble verdict -- until Mark East entered Hope House and found little signs that the police, on a routine investigation, hadn't thought to look for. Little things that added up to murder.« less